Greplin Grabs Your Personal Content
By Azam on September 23, 2011 Add a Comment
A few years ago, Daniel Gross was on his way to a party in his native Israel when he pulled out his smartphone to look up the address. The invitation could have been buried in his e-mail, on Facebook, or…
Continue Reading...Ness Being More Subjective on Search
By Azam on July 19, 2011 Add a Comment 
Ness is working on developing highly personalized search engine and recently received 5M from investors. Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures lead the Series A round, with participation from Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, and Angel investors.
The Alsop-incubated company is…
Continue Reading...Social Networking Falling Under the Influence of Others
By Azam on June 6, 2011 Add a Comment
Social Networking is a powerful tool in sharing and decimating information across a network. I have been thinking on this idea for some time from telecom to statecraft. In telecom, networks are geared towards passing data to nodes and the…
Continue Reading...Groupon is a lot like Group Sex
By Azam on June 3, 2011 Add a Comment
Everyone wants to have some fun at first and things get too messy and ultimately you are disappointed. You do not want to let others know you caught up there in between all of it. Groupon was fun in the beginning…
Continue Reading...Mobile Payment is Getting Very Near
By Azam on May 24, 2011 Add a Comment
Google and Sprint set to announce today the launch of mobile payment using Near Field Technology. The market for mobile payment is heating up with launch of NFC technology and commercial availability. The mobile payment service requires a NFC semi…
Trada Optimizes the Crowd
By Azam on March 31, 2011 Add a Comment
Trada bring in the crowd to help optimize online search advertising in simple words. Online campaigns just got easier with Trada helping to identify the right key words for your campaign. The online world of advertising is quite daunting and…
Continue Reading...VivoTech Brings Life to Near Field Communications for Mobile Payments
By Azam on March 29, 2011 Add a Comment
Vivotech is the leader in NFC mobile payments systems and is behind the technology most of dominant players are using to deliver to ease and convenience of mobile payment systems
ViVOtech’s reader devices rely on a technology called Near Field Comminications,…
Continue Reading...Square Makes Mobile Payment Easy on iPhone, iPad and Android
By Azam on May 11, 2010 Add a Comment 
Square, a new venture from a co-founder of Twitter, launched Tuesday with a free application that allows anyone to accept credit card payments on a mobile device.
The San Francisco-based Square, the brainchild of Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey, works with…
Continue Reading...Google is very serious about delivering on Voice
By Azam on March 12, 2009 Add a Comment 
Google Voice is an ambitious application from Google to address the market for telephony and voice applications. Google voice is a re branding of voice telephony VOIP application service from the acquisition of GrandCentral that would bring the power of…
Continue Reading...AdMob rings in more capital to the tune of $12.5M for mobile ads
By Azam on January 29, 2009 Add a Comment 
AdMob the mobile ad network popular with iPhone raises an additional $12.5M round of funding. Omar Hamoui reports in his blog post, funds will be used to help AdMob “cement our leadership position by making the investments that will help…
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